A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

Chapter 26
Islamic Contradictions and Hypocrisies
America is hated in large parts of the Middle East and Asia, but the more educated and affluent
Muslims usually wear Levi jeans while shouting 'death to America '. When the cameras are gone and the
frenzy is over, they can often be found cueing up at Western embassies, hoping for a visa to immigrate in
search of a ‘better life’. This hate/love relationship many Muslims have with western democracy,
freedoms, culture, and technology is despised by their more aged Imams, who then respond by ratchetingup
the hate-America sermons. They paint illusions of Western conspiracies into young minds in the
region, desperately trying to hold back the forces of enlightenment and change.
Muslim spokespersons claim moral purity in their fight against ‘decadent’ Westerners. Indeed,
Muslims told an infidel forced himself sexually on a nine years old girl would quickly condemn such a
man for being a pedophile, and then he would be lynched. But mention the Prophet Mohammed slept with
a girl of the same age, and watch Muslims overact with all kinds of rationalizations such as 'girls in those
days matured fast' or 'it was normal and acceptable in that culture', etc. Apparently it was also normal in
those days to rape a widow the same night you slaughtered her beloved husband in an unprovoked raid.
To normal thinking feeling human beings, the phrase ‘most merciful’ would not seem to apply to either of
these divinely sanctioned acts by Muhammad, yet somehow such contradictions are lost on Muslims.
We hear that Muslims believe the Black Stone circled in Mecca is conscious and will testify for and
against them on Judgment Day (though they will deny it, the stone and ritual is based on a pagan deity).
Meanwhile Muslims all over the world gleefully bring down ‘un-Islamic’ idols, statues, and figures
representing deities in other religions. The physical manifestation of Allah, in the form of a conscience
stone, is an important core of Muslims’ connection with deity. A pillar of Islam states that every
individual must make a pilgrimage to the stone and pay homage. Having done so, a good Muslims can
then return to his/her home and with greater piety plot violence against pagan idol worshipers of all sorts.
The world continues to find disappointment as it waits for the majority of ‘moderate’ Muslims to
bring the extremists into line. The problem is that even moderate Muslims have enormous capacity to
absorb great hypocrisies. It appears the vast majority of people from Islamic lands develop early a
capacity to accept extreme contradictions without question. Remaining completely unfazed, they continue
to call monsters who target innocents ‘mujahedeen’ (holy warriors). With nary a blink, moderates and
extremists alike call fiends who target Jewish children in Israel ‘mujahedeen’. Arab Muslim societies,
instead of developing any empathy for the victims of Muslim terrorists, race backward into ever deeper
superstition, bigotry, and a culture of blame which renders reformation impossible. Huge parts of the
Muslim world are afflicted with what can only be called world-wide denial, if not a deep psychosis
characterized by a false sense of superiority and irrational hatred of all others, particularly those capable
of defending themselves. If a small group of Muslim terrorists are humiliated in Abu-Graib prison, and all
Muslims take it personally, gathering in great numbers to demand revenge. But the treatment of Iraqi
western ‘collaborators’ by the prisoners ‘peers’ evokes little concern. If any American (non-Muslim)
soldier were to be captured, is there any doubt as to his fate? Muslims around the world appear largely
indifferent to the most in-humane treatment of infidels in Iraq. Many even relish videos and reports of
atrocities as if it is some sort of Islamic national sport ("An American is killed with a road-side bomb
…score one for Muhammad!")
But then, even the term "holy war" (Jihad) is an oxymoron. There is nothing ‘holy’ about War, even
when necessary to preserve a society, and there is certainly nothing warlike in any pure religion based on
a kind benevolent God. The last 1400 years of history warn us that the typical Muslim variant of War
usually involves targeting innocents, raping, and pillaging. Thinking, feeling human beings consider such
acts much less than ‘Holy’, despite the usual chants of "Allah Akbar" by vile marauders. Muslims,
however, seem largely oblivious to the self-evident truth that the greatest blasphemers in any religion are
those who kill in God’s name. Numerous videos exist showing chanting Islamists sawing off the head of
some poor victim. Such videos are in high demand in Islamic lands, in what can only be described as
some form of sick Islamic rapture. What are in reality the worst examples of hypocrisy and human